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Details
- Date
- 1979
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour screenprint on thin white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 73.8 x 49.8 cm image; 78.7 x 51.2 cm sheet
- Credit
- Purchased 1981
- Location
- 20th-century galleries (lower level 1)
- Accession number
- 175.1981.8
- Copyright
- © Marie McMahon and Frances (Budden) Phoenix with the Women's Domestic Needlework Group
- Artist information
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Women's Domestic Needlework Group, Sydney
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- Artist information
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Marie McMahon
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- Artist information
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Frances Phoenix
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About
The Women's Domestic Needlework Group (WDNG) was initiated by artists Marie McMahon and Frances (Budden) Phoenix with the aim of reclaiming the creative, but historically undervalued, practices of embroidery, knitting, crochet, lacemaking and needlework.
Having amassed over 700 crocheted d'oyleys salvaged largely from thrift shops, the artists researched and documented the D'oyley Archive and in 1979 mounted 'The d'oyley show: an exhibition of women's domestic fancywork' at Watters Gallery in Sydney. Ten screenprinted posters completed by WDNG members and the Earthworks Poster Collective (1972–80) at Sydney University's Tin Sheds Art Workshop acted as both explanation and wall texts for the exhibition.
Regrettably, the D'oyley Archive was destroyed in a warehouse fire in 1985.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Project 39 - Women's Imprint (1982), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Oct 1982–31 Oct 1982
See you at the barricades, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2015–29 Nov 2015
Ewa Pachucka 'Arcadia: Landscape and bodies', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Mar 2018–29 Apr 2018
20th-Century galleries Rehang (Lower Level 1), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Macushla Robinson, See you at the barricades, Sydney, 2015, 47.
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Anna Waldmann, Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Sydney, 1982.
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